Zakaria Taher Sumon

Minister of Housing and Public Works and Member of Parliament for Cumilla-8.

Constituency number 256 confirmed by three independent sources: Wikipedia List of constituencies of the Jatiya Sangsad, Wikipedia List of members of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad, and the Comilla-8 Wikipedia article (which erroneously states 257 in its own infobox -- that is a Wikipedia editing error; the constituency list and member list both give 256, consistent with Comilla-8 = 249+8-1 = 256 in the sequential Comilla block 249-259). EC official district spelling is 'Cumilla' (matching 2022 administrative renaming). Upazila: Barura only; prior to the 2014 delimitation the constituency also included Comilla Dakshin Municipality and five union parishads from Comilla Sadar Dakshin Upazila; boundary_redrawn_2024 = false (last change was pre-2014 election). Winner vote count: BSS primary source (official result despatch) gives 169,178; secondary sources (Wikipedia, search snippets) give 169,278 -- a 100-vote discrepancy likely from transcription. BSS is used as primary. Runner-up: Md Shafiqul Alam Helal (Jamaat), 45,091 votes per BSS; margin 124,087 votes. Total valid votes not confirmed from primary source (at least 8 candidates contested; two-candidate sum 214,269 understates total). Registered electorate: 380,833 (196,098 male, 184,732 female, 3 third-gender) per viewsbangladesh.com pre-election data. Vote_share_percent and margin_percent left null because total valid votes not confirmed. Term count = 2: first term was Comilla-7 by-election (19 Dec 2004 to 27 Oct 2006), triggered by death of his father Abu Taher (banker and former MP). Wikipedia confirms his father's identity. No cabinet committee memberships confirmed from primary source -- as a full minister he chairs the Ministry's parliamentary consultative committee by convention but this is not individually confirmed. Criminal cases: none mentioned across BSS, TBS, Wikipedia. Education and occupation_pre_politics: not confirmed from any primary source. Age 60 computed from confirmed birth date 15 December 1965 (Wikipedia) relative to verification date 2026-05-17.